Hairdressing device



Feb. 22, 1944. E. R.. coNKLlN HAIR DRESSING DEVICE Filed April 29,l 1943 ""Hfi EDWARD Patented Feb. 22, 1944 Y y 2,342,331i y UNITED STATES PTENT OFFICE HAIRDRESSING DEVICE `Edward R. Conklin, Wauseon, Ohio vAIDIZIIGlflin 29, 1943, Serial N0. 484,976

4 Claims.

This invention relates to hair dressing equipment.

This invention has utility when incorporated in devices for symmetrically and attractively laying strands of hair in ranges of hair-do; and more especially for improving the retention or holding to form of the head dress, as in waving, crimping and curling.

Referring to the drawing:

Fig, 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment, in opened position, of a device adapted for treating a lock of hair in accordance with the disclosure herein;

Fig. 2 is a View of the device of Fig. 1, as deformed or collapsed in receiving a taut wrapping of a strand of hair for such to be tensioned, the clamp therefor being open; and

Fig. 3 is a side elevation, with parts broken away, of the device of Fig. 2, with the clamping arm brought to hair-holding position.

The showing is of a three-armed device. The hook carrying or clamping arm is of spread form in one piece of spring wire. This is a two-piece device in which the second section is of two arms and provides a hinge mounting for the clamping arm.

The general physical form is brought out by tracing the wire sections. The two-arm or mounting portion has a wire end I (Fig. 3) which extends down to return bend 2 with an up-portion 3 (Fig. 1) to a cross-over inwardly extending hinge bearing 4. From this bearing 4, a leg 5 extends to a U-free end 6, with a parallel spring arm 'I to a cross-over 8, which provides spacing at the mounting between the leg portion 5, of the medial arm approximating the spacing bend 6. The spring Wire portions 5, l, are susceptible to collapse or inward bowing (Fig. 2). In resisting collapse, these wire portions put under tension locks or strands of hair wrapped thereon.

At the mounting, there is the bearing 4 and a torsion-resisting portion adjacent thereto including the portion 8, an approximately semi-circular arc 9, with an additional parallel portion I0 as to the portion 8. Parallel to the arc spring 9, is a second arc spring II from the portion I0, in this coil structure. In addition to the bearing 4, there are three cross-overs. That is, besides the two cross-overs 8, I Il, there is a third cross-over I2. At the junctions 8, Si; I II and I2, I3, of the cross-overs in this coil structure, such are within the Wrap I, 2, 3.

The portion I3, with a bend I4 and a leg I5, complete an arm similar to and adjacent the arm 5, 6, l. It is thus seen that these two, and normally parallel arms 5, 6, 'I, and I3, I4, I5, together with their spring coil mounting connection, comprise one piece or length of spring wire. Toward the mounting or spring coil, the

leg I5 has an up-portion I6 with an inward bearing Il and a drop portion I8 opposite to the portion I. There is thus provided a wrap I6, Il, It, for the` end of the two-arm wire remote from, or rather opposite to the wrap I, 2, 3, 4, for the other end of this same spring wire.

The bearings 4, I'I, are in approximate alignment. Eyes I8 at the bearings 4, I 1, provide a hinge mounting for a relativelypfreely swingable arm having a pair of bowed or spread legs 20 to inwardly extending portions 2 I. The portions 2l converge toward a "throat or hook base portion 22 with a slight spread 23 to up-turned return-bend nose 24 of the completed hook. As the portions I, and I3, I5, are bowed toward each other or inward, the over-al1 length of the arms is reduced, in drawing the bend termini 6, I4, slightly nearer or closer to the spring coil integral hinge therefor. However, in drawing the arm portions 28 inward or toward eachother, the overall distance of the inside of the hook 23, 24, is increased as from the hinge 4, I9, I'I, I9.

When the device is out of use, the arm` ZI), 2|,

may be readily swung clear oraway from the arms 5, 6, '1, and I3, I4, I'5, as normally adjacent. In fact, at some positions of rest, the arm 28, 2I may take an angle of about 45 and be so held by the torsion mounting or spring. The bows or arcs 9, II, with their cross-over portions have a slight tendency to hold the similar and approximately parallel arms 5, 6, 'I, and I3, I4, I5, but slightly spaced; and therefore not in a spread relation (Fig. 1). However, there is sufcient resiliency in the spring mounting to accommodate, not only the spread (Fig. 1), but a degree of spacing at the flexing region for different masses of hair to have the tips thereof gripped between the arms 5, 6, I and I3, I4, I5. In practice this works out' as an automatic adjustment for the desired quantity of hair or dimension of strands or lock to be wrapped for the purpose of taking on a set.

The device is readily and simply put into practical use by placing a desired dimension lock of hair at its end remote from' the scalp to be gripped between the arm 5, 6, I and the arm I3, I4, I5. With the arm 20, 2I, swung away from the pair of arms gripping the end of a lock of hair, there may thus be approximate alignment between the two sections in determing a 'longitudinal axis upon which to twist the device. In this twisting, the device should be rmiy held for the hair to be taut, but not to an extent to distress the one having the hair so treated. Either by taut hair from the device, or snug rm wrapping to collapse the wire portions 5, I, and I3, I5, there is a major step toward eiiicient performance hereunder (Fig. 2). This collapsing or bowing of the arms for the two-arm piece of wire, to some extent changes the spacingor distance of the bend portions 6, I4, from the mounting 'or hinge region. As the device comes to position adjacent the scalp from which the hair extends, the spread legs 2l) takev up for the quantity of wrapped hair. A slight side-wise shift brings the hook spread 23-to cen-A provided additional resistance to hold theclamp hooked.

A wrap 25 of hair is now clamped to be held in its Wound or Wrapped assembly. The experience hereunder is more than mere winding of the strands of the hair for such to be so held for a time interval, thereby to promote retention by the hair of somelines of position taken in such winding.` This achievement, more than just winding and clamping, is in subjecting the spring arms to` bowing or collapsing. By so doing, the entire wrap of hair is kept for the entire interval under considerable stretch or tension. Each of the individual hairs is thus given a specific longitudinal 'stretch and bend, materially supplementing the set response in the treatment. For instance for a normal duration of hair-do holding, the treatment may be accomplished in from one-halfV to one-third the time. There is accordingly enhancing values for reducing shopoverhead in the reduction of time, with less period for being subjected to treatment by the customer. All'this is in eicient performance toward permanent for the Waving, crimping and curling effects sought.

The device is a convenient and simple tool for beauty shop operators and hair dressers. It is practically designed of spring wire in two pieces. The major or longer length of wire has adjacent its ends the arm sections 5, 6, 1, and I3, Id, I5, With'the connecting or intermediate spring-coilproviding mounting 8, 9, I0, II, I2. When the endof a lock of hair is grasped between the arms 5, 6, 'I, and I3, I4, I5, one proceeds further under the invention herein, when the hair is taut and the sides 5, 1, and I3, I5, bow inward (Fig. 2). Whatever the quantity of hair, or the length to chan-ge the overall size of the Wrap, there is suiiicient give in the hook-arm to embrace and come to holding position for the clamp operation interval of holding. vAs the interval has passed, the device is unhooked and unwound. In practice it is desirable to have suiiicient devices in number to engage the number of locks or strand 4to be subjected to the treatment. Upon removal of the devices, there is adopted suoh'brushing or plac- Aing of the hair as may better suit the ends desired.

:transversely yieldable relatively movable members provided with a resilient end connection providing mounting therebetween, and a self-adjusting hair-holding clamp therefor swingable from said connection. Y

2. A hair dressing device of relatively movable two-arm transversely yieldable spring wire in one piece with a resilient mounting providing an end connection for assembling the arms, and an additional spring Wire arm swin-gable from the mounting and hookable with the free ends of the twoarm Wire to clamp hair on the device.

3. A two-piece spring wire hair dressing device of major and minor Wire lengths, the major length comprising a pair of parallelV relatively movable leg portions from a plurality of spring coil sections forming a yieldable mounting connection at one end of the leg portions, the minor length having hinge connection with the mounting and a free-end hook for engaging the leg portions reinote from the mounting thereby to clamp strands of hair on the device.

4. A hair dressing device comprising coil means providing a hinge, a pair of parallel arm members extending from the hinge to relatively movable free ends, said arms being transversely collapsible, and athird member independently swingable from the hinge and having transversely spreadable arms and provided with engaging means at its free end, whereby a wrap of hair to collapse the intermediate pair of arms may have such wrap embraced by the additional arms and so held by the engaging means of the third member coacting with the free ends of the other members.

I EDWARD R. CONKLIN. 

